DevOps (Associate) Engineer Job

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries innovate through simplification. From the back office to the boardroom, warehouse to storefront, on premise to cloud, desktop to mobile device - SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.

WHAT WE DO
The Cloud Architecture and Engineering team help SAP reach the goal of becoming the most innovative Cloud company powered by SAP HANA. Our goal is twofold: (1) to provide infrastructure reference designs capable of supporting large multi-national enterprise companies and (2) develop products enabling the configuration, management, and monitoring of cloud infrastructure in SAP's data centres.

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
As a part of Cloud Architecture and Engineering (CAE) organization, the Cloud Infrastructure Engineering & Automation (CIEA) unit designs, develops, and operates OpenStack and container infrastructures that run the SAP Cloud Platform hosting SAP's PaaS, IoT and Big Data cloud offerings. We are currently extending and transforming our existing Infrastructure Architecture, Engineering and Development team to a DevOps team setup. This DevOps team owns the cloud infrastructure components (server, storage, and network) end-to-end. In close alignment with the SAP Cloud Platform DevOps team, we analyze our customers and stakeholder requirements and demands to identify new topics and technologies to research and operate them in production.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS
- You will work on cutting-edge engineering topics in the field of various open source eco systems. The focus is OpenStack and Kubernetes but is not limited to that.
- You will have the opportunity to actively contribute code to open source projects.
- You will work with the newest technologies like software defined networking and software defined storage as well as the underlying hardware infrastructure.
- You will have the opportunity to carry out research and engineering activities with open source projects like OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
- The output of these activities will become integrated to SAP's Multi-Cloud strategy and concepts.

SOFT SKILLS
- Ability to work within a multicultural and geographically distributed team environment utilizing clear communication.
- Ability to present and engage in technical discussions with team members and management.
- Ability to work at a high level of professionalism and quality with customers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
You are required to have experience and working knowledge in the following areas:

Essential
- Demonstrable professional experience with Linux operating system and shell scripting.
- Demonstrable professional experience with OpenStack.
- Demonstrable professional experience with the interdisciplinary infrastructure engineering areas of Network, Storage, and Compute including related security aspects.
- Demonstrable professional experience producing technical documentation.

Desired
- Experience in Operations and/or development of Container infrastructure environments (e.g. Docker & Kubernetes).
- Experience with usage Public Cloud Infrastructures (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure etc.).
- Experience with Windows and Active Directory.
- Programming skills in Python and Perl.

QUALIFICATIONS
BSc/BEng (minimum Upper 2nd class) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent disciple.

- Up to 2 years experience in interdisciplinary infrastructure DevOps Teams in charge for infrastructure landscapes based on open source projects like OpenStack, Kubernetes or Docker

LOCATION
St. Leon-Rot, Dresden in Germany or Belfast in UK.

SAP'S DIVERSITY COMMITMENT

To harness the power of innovation, SAP invests in the development of its diverse employees. We aspire to leverage the qualities and appreciate the unique competencies that each person brings to the company.

SAP is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team (Americas: or , APJ: , EMEA: ). Requests for reasonable accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

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Salary: . Date posted: 14/06/2017